Another Apollo mission
BBC recommissions stand-up show
13/09/2007 … Flagship stand-up show Live At The Apollo is to return to the BBC.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 13 September 2007
Beyond a joke?
Irish gags land Irishman in trouble
13/09/2007 … A parish magazine editor has been forced out of his job after printing Irish jokes.
Gervais turns movie director
...and he stars as the world's first liar
13/09/2007 … Ricky Gervais is to direct his first Hollywood movie.
Don't get done, get Dom...
13/09/2007 … Dom Joly is to front a new consumer affairs show for Five.
Tue 11 September 2007
Comic fined for anti-Jew comments
French star's history of outrage
11/09/2007 … A French comic has been fined almost £5,000 after he accused Jews of ‘memorial pornography’ for their remembrance of the Holocaust.
© Bravo Jesus gag sparks outrage
US comic Kathy Griffin to be censored
11/09/2007 … American comic Kathy Griffin is to be censored by TV chiefs after enraging hardline Christians with a joke about Jesus.
© ITV Shock news: Davidson is offensive
11/09/2007 … Jim Davidson has left reality show Hell’s Kitchen after making homophobic comments.
Mon 10 September 2007
'Fat, white bastard'? That's fine...
Sir Trevor cleared over Manning jibe
10/09/2007 … Sir Trevor McDonald has been cleared of making offensive comments about Bernard Manning in the week of his death.